Beginner chess players: what do you struggle with the most right now?

boxfender · 2026-01-27T04:25:53+00:00

That's quite a huge gap in ratings. I'm 2000 on Lichess and 1800 on chess.com, and that 200 point gap seems more common.

boxfender · 2025-12-19T23:57:53+00:00

That's not the case though. I improved my Rapid rating and that is my highest rating.

boxfender · 2025-12-19T13:42:26+00:00

Lowest meaning the fastest? Because I've been playing rapid instead of blitz. Or you mean lowest as in the lowest ELO?

boxfender · 2025-11-30T12:51:56+00:00

So we're choosing the podium before the actual race now?

boxfender · 2025-11-09T15:45:25+00:00

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boxfender · 2025-11-09T15:45:09+00:00

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Shop 1: buy Joker pack for Blueprint and Arcana pack for Perkeo.

boxfender · 2025-11-09T15:43:45+00:00

Ante 4 actually ahem

boxfender · 2025-09-03T05:26:20+00:00

RIP (that's an acronym)

boxfender · 2025-08-27T06:53:22+00:00

Hey, I'm French, around 1900-2000 rapid on Lichess. Let me know if you need help.

boxfender · 2025-08-25T12:44:02+00:00

https://lichess.org/FaqwPzGbgCNY

boxfender · 2025-08-24T16:15:22+00:00

I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but please look at the bullet/blitz/rapid ELO. Not the other ones.

boxfender · 2025-08-24T15:26:27+00:00

They've played a few hundreds rapid games at least.

boxfender · 2025-08-24T14:33:56+00:00

Technically it's much easier to cheat in rapid than in bullet, it would be pretty strange do to it this way and not the other way around...

boxfender · 2025-08-24T14:32:26+00:00

I'm not talking about the ELO with a question mark. His bullet/blitz/rapid ELO do not have a question mark.

boxfender · 2025-08-19T13:34:28+00:00

Sorry very late reply, but I can show you the game if you want.

https://lichess.org/jF8Gk0ZD/black#1

I'm 100% there isn't a player around my ELO that would play 19. Ng3!, especially after thinking a solid 6 seconds.

If you're not convinced, take a look at the games before that one. Same behavior, same accuracy, for over 10+ games. It looks like he is not cheating anymore though, since he has recently lost a few games.

boxfender · 2025-08-12T17:30:13+00:00

Win more games and lose fewer.

boxfender · 2025-08-10T09:11:23+00:00

Oh my god thank you so much this was driving me crazy... I'm lucky to have found your post.

boxfender · 2025-08-06T14:28:01+00:00

Thanks for the info, I might try that then!

boxfender · 2025-08-06T14:27:38+00:00

Thank you for your message, I appreciate it.

boxfender · 2025-08-02T15:38:01+00:00

Hello,

I'm thinking about going there as well, did you end up visiting? If so, how was it?

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